Adapted from Mose Allison, Young Man Blues, Music © Copyright Mose Allison

Well an old man

ain’t nothin’ in this world these days.

 

I said an old man . . .

ain’t nothin’ in this world these days.

 

In th’ old days . . .

when an old man was a strong man . . .

all the people stand back when an old man walk by.

 

But nowadays . . .

the young man got all the women . . .

 

and an old man

ain’t nothing in this world these days.